Scenario

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Merger and Acquisition evaluations

Platform and vendor
selection and oversight

Preparation and execution of outsourcing plans

Rapid Growth within
your company and team

Budget constraints and changes in direction

THE PROBLEM

The business is setting overall budget goals with a decrease from the previous year, and operational goals which are higher. Worse yet, IT is taking a disproportionate amount of those cuts. How do you manage your budget and team in this environment? How can you control and direct the budget cuts and still meet your operational goals? How can you evaluate your current IT organization so the reductions do minimal damage?

THE SOLUTION

Inventivity offers custom services to address issues relating to budget planning and department performance goals. Our efforts are based on our experiences aligning technology organizations with the business and make use of the "Balanced Scorecard" approach first described by Kaplan and Norton. We have experience addressing budget reductions, project cancellations, and staff reductions. And we can help you maintain and strengthen your organization, even in the face of budget reductions and project uncertainty.

THE PROCESS

A budgeting and alignment engagement begins, as with all our engagements, with a shared understanding of your goals for the process. Every engagement is different in the details and we need to understand your goals in order to meet your needs.

Next, we work with the technology leadership and the executives to measure the alignment with the business and evaluate ongoing projects in terms of their contribution to the business, current and future.

Finally, with a common set of measurements and an understanding of business priorities, we dig in and help evaluate potential decisions...which programs contribute the most to the business in the current environment, how to emphasize those and de-emphasize others without losing work done to date, how to align skills and teams to the new environment and priorities.

While our recommendations are a tremendous source of value, we don't avoid the difficult tasks. We can help with management of the decision making efforts, and we can help implement the decisions and monitor the results, ensuring that new measurement systems are meeting your needs. We bring our years of change management and business focus to bear on your problems.

THE RESULT

A streamlined and effective IT organization, aligned with the business, meeting the needs of internal customers.

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